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The Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Alighieri Dante, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140441050 (0-14-044105-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:Dante (12651321) is the greatest of Italian poets, and his Divine Comedy is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his Comedy in colloquial Italian, wanting it to be a poem for the common reader. Taking two threads of a story that everybody knew and loved the story of a vision of Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and the story of the lover who has to brave the Underworld to find his lost lady he combined them into a great allegory of the souls search for God. He made it swift, exciting and topical, lavishing upon it all his learning and wit, all his tenderness, humour and enthusiasm, and all his poetry. In Paradise, which T. S. Eliot among others has found either incomprehensible or intensely exciting, Dante journeys through the encircling spheres of heaven towards God. Translated by and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers [via]
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentineby Dante Alighieri, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0140440062 (0-14-044006-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine'Book summary:Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld and encounter the tormented souls of the damned - from heretics and pagans to gluttons, criminals and seducers - who tell of their sad fates and predict events still to come in Dante's life. In this first part of his "Divine Comedy", Dante fused satire and humour with intellect and soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. [via]
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Infernoby Mark Musa, Dante AlighieriISBN 0253332141 (0-253-33214-1)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Inferno'Book summary:NOTE: SOLD AS SET ONLY
"Musas commentary is thorough and clear... recommended." Library Journal
"Among currently available parallel-text editions, this one certainly has the most elaborate and helpful annotation..." Choice
The publication of the first two volumes of the six-volume ÂDivine Comedy brings readers Mark Musas vivid verse translation of the ÂInferno. Musa has revised his earlier version, long cited as the most accessible and reliable of the English translations. The dual-language first volume presents Musas translation with facing Italian text, and compiled in the second volume is his lifetime study of the ÂInferno, where Musa examines and discusses the critical commentary of other Dante scholars and presents his own ideas and interpretations.
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Infernoby Carol Forman, Alighieri DanteISBN 0812034112 (0-8120-3411-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: The Inferno'Book summary:A guide to reading "The Inferno" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Dante's Comedy: The Infernoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0828318840 (0-8283-1884-0)
Softcover, Branden Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Comedy: The Inferno'Book summary:Translated by Nicholas Kilmer, and illustrated by Benjamin Martinez. Dante called his great work The Comedy - signifying a narrative with a happy ending. The narrative is about the journey of the human spirit through trial, and toward salvation. The journey takes place in three segments of which this, "The Inferno," is the first. [via]
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Dante's Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 1420926381 (1-4209-2638-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno'Book summary:A faithful yet totally original contemporary spin on a classic, Dante's Inferno as interpreted by acclaimed artist Sandow Birk and writer Marcus Sanders is a journey through a Hell that bears an eerie semblance to our own world. Birk, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one of "realism's edgier, more visionary painters," offers extraordinarily nuanced and vivid illustrations inspired by Gustave Dore's famous engravings. This modern interpretation depicts an infernal landscape infested with mini-malls, fast food restaurants, ATMs, and other urban fixtures, and a text that cleverly incorporates urban slang and references to modern events and people (as Dante did in his own time). Previously published in a deluxe, fine-press edition to wide praise, and accompanied by national exhibitions, this striking paperback edition of Dante's Inferno is a genuinely provocative and insightful adaptation for a new generation of readers. [via]
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- Dante's Inferno: ISBN 0811842134 (0-8118-4213-4)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc - Dante's Inferno: ISBN 0880012919 (0-88001-291-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - Dante's Inferno: ISBN 0253141842 (0-253-14184-2)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr - Dante's Inferno: ISBN 0500013624 (0-500-01362-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Dante's Inferno: ISBN 1420926381 (1-4209-2638-1)
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Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poetsby Daniel HalpernISBN 0880013737 (0-88001-373-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contrmporary Poets'Book summary:A new telling of Dante's Inferno, this translation is the most fluent, grippingly readable version of the famous poem yet, andwith all the consummate technical skill that is the hallmark of Sean O'Brien's own poetrymanages the near-impossible task of preserving the subtle power and lyric nuance of the Italian original, while seeking out an entirely natural English music. No other version has so vividly expressed the horror, cruelty, beauty, and outrageous imaginative flight of Dante's original vision.
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Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Editionby Mark Musa, Alighieri DanteISBN 0253209307 (0-253-20930-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition'Book summary:This new critical edition, including Mark Musas classic translation, provides students with a clear, readable verse translation accompanied by ten innovative interpretations of Dantes masterpiece.
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Dante's Paradise: Translated With Notes and Commentaryby Mark MusaISBN 0253316197 (0-253-31619-7)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Paradise: Translated With Notes and Commentary'Book summary:The Paradise, which Dante called the sublime canticle, is perhaps the most ambitious book of The Divine Comedy. In this climactic segment, Dante's pilgrim reaches Paradise and encounters the Divine Will. The poet's mystical interpretation of the religious life is a complex and exquisite conclusion to his magnificent trilogy. Mark Musa's powerful and sensitive translation preserves the intricacy of the work while rendering it in clear, rhythmic English. His extensive notes and introductions to each canto make accessible to all readers the diverse and often abstruse ingredients of Dante's unparalleled vision of the Absolute: elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, medieval astrology and science, theological dogma, and the poet's own personal experiences.
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Dante's Paradisoby Sandow Birk, Mary Campbell, Michael F. Meister, Peter S. HawkinsISBN 0811847209 (0-8118-4720-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Paradiso'Book summary:With the publication of Dante's Paradiso, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders complete their literary and artistic achievementthe retelling of The Divine Comedy in contemporary words and images. Hailed as "inspired" by the The London Review of Books, Birk and Sanders's adaptation of Dante's classic work is true to the spirit of the original and is as acerbic and shockingly funny today as in thirteenth-century Italy. With a text that incorporates modern slang and references to anachronistically recent public figures, Birk and Sanders pay tribute to Dante's linguistic approach and clever politics. Birk's striking spin on Gustave Dor's famous engravings accompany the cantos. Together they lend the timeless poem a postmodern edge. A major retrospective of all of Birk's illustrations and paintings for the trilogy will be held at the San Jose Museum of Art in August 2005 in tribute to a masterpiece for our times. [via]
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Dante's Paradiso: Paradiseby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 1420926403 (1-4209-2640-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Paradiso: Paradise'Book summary:The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the third part of the "Divine Comedy," the "Paradiso" or "Paradise," from the translation of Charles Eliot Norton. [via]
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Dante's Purgatorioby Marcus Sanders, Michael F. Meister, Marcia Tanner, Sandow BirkISBN 0811847195 (0-8118-4719-5)
Hardcover, Chronicle Books LLC
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio'Book summary:Following the acclaim for their innovative edition of Dante's Inferno, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders guide us to the next level of the afterlife in Dante's Purgatorio. The second book of Dante Alighieri's classic poem The Divine Comedy, this version of Purgatorio couples a clever literary adaptation incorporating modern urban speech and contemporary references with powerful illustrations inspired by Gustave Dor's famous engravings. Whereas Inferno was primarily situated in a city that bears a curious resemblance to modern Los Angeles, Purgatorio is set in a surreal San Francisco Bay Area, an outlandish and hopeful milieu for those who have a chance to wash their sins away. Together, the sardonic yet playful combination of text and images comprise a vivid retelling of this masterpiece. [via]
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Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatoryby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 142092639X (1-4209-2639-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatory'Book summary:The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the second part of the "Divine Comedy," the "Purgatorio" or "Purgatory," from the translation of Charles Eliot Norton. [via]
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Dante's Purgatoryby Dante AlighieriISBN 0253179262 (0-253-17926-2)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatory'Book summary:Mark Musa again brings his poetic sensitivity and his skill as a translator to the difficult task of making Dante's masterpiece live for English-speaking readers. His rendering of the Purgatory is distinguished by the same flexible iambic verse, the same dignified understatement, and the same elegant clarity that characterizes Dante's own lofty and complex style. Musa's extensive annotation as well as his prose introduction to each of the cantos reveal the hand of the careful scholar and craftsman.
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The Descent into Hellby Not Available, Dorothy L. SayersISBN 0141026421 (0-14-102642-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Descent into Hell'Book summary:Many have made the journey. None have ever returned. Wandering through a dark forest, Dante finds himself at the gates to the underworld. Despite his terror, he dares to enter the Circles of Hell, where the damned lie in torment. As he descends deeper, he encounters wild-eyed sinners, sees the three-headed, howling hound Cerberus, and meets a long-dead prophet who foretells Dante's destiny. He passes through realms of fire and ice, and at last reaches the frozen heart of Hell where the hideous Satan, greatest of all the damned, lies in wait. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, J. G. NicholsISBN 1843911116 (1-84391-111-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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- The Divine Comedy: ISBN 1404383638 (1-4043-8363-8)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0140448950 (0-14-044895-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0691018952 (0-691-01895-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0691018960 (0-691-01896-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 069101910X (0-691-01910-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0691019134 (0-691-01913-4)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0140444416 (0-14-044441-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0192810960 (0-19-281096-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 1843911116 (1-84391-111-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
- The Divine Comedy: ISBN 1404383638 (1-4043-8363-8)
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The Divine Comedyby Frederic Will, Alighieri Dante, Cynthia Brantley JohnsonISBN 1416500235 (1-4165-0023-5)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
The first volume of The Divine Comedy--Dante begins his downward journey through the seven circles of Hell.
EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: " A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
" A chronology of the author's life and work
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" Detailed explanatory notes
" Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
" Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
" A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential. [via]SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
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The Divine Comedyby Mark Musa, Dante AlighieriISBN 0142437220 (0-14-243722-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This vigorous translation of Inferno preserves Dante's simple, natural style, and captures the swift movement of the original Italian verse. Mark Musa's blank verse rendition of the poet's journey through the circles of Hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. @HolyHaha I have to climb a mountain now? You got to be kidding me. Is this a joke? Who the hell came up with story? VIIIRRRGGGILLLLLLLLLLL! From Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less [via]
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The Divine Comedy II Vol. 1 : Purgatorio: Textby Charles S. Singleton, Dante AlighieriISBN 0691019096 (0-691-01909-6)
Softcover, Princeton University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy II Vol. 1 : Purgatorio: Text'Book summary:This splendid verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum provides an entirely fresh experience of Dante's great poem of penance and hope. As Dante ascends the Mount of Purgatory toward the Earthly Paradise and his beloved Beatrice, through "that second kingdom in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, " all the passion and suffering, poetry and philosophy are rendered with the immediacy of a poet of our own age. With extensive notes and commentary prepared especially for this edition.
"The English Dante of choice."--Hugh Kenner.
"Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths."--Robert Fagles, Princeton University.
"Tough and supple, tender and violent . . . vigorous, vernacular . . . Mandelbaum's Dante will stand high among modern translations."-- "The Christian Science Monitor" [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieriby Dante AlighieriISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:"As poetry, Mr. Zappulla's English Dante is successful--. The power of Dante's descriptive poetry should be apparent, and that is perhaps the highest compliment one can pay a translator."--Washington Times
In this new rendition of a timeless classic, Italian scholar Elio Zappulla captures the majesty and enduring power of the Inferno, the first of the three canticles of Dante's The Divine Comedy, unarguably one of the masterpieces of world literature. Rendering Dante's terza rima into lyrical blank verse, Zappulla's translation makes accessible to the modern reader the journey of the famed Florentine poet Dante through the nine circles of hell. With Virgil at his side, the great poet descends through horrific landscapes of the damned--dark forests, boiling muck, and burning plains filled with unspeakable punishment, lamentation, and terror--depicted with gruesome detail unmatched in all literature. Richly annotated, this translation takes even the first-time reader on a truth-seeking journey whose imaginative and psychological discoveries make clear why this work persists at the heart of Western culture.
"If Dante's Inferno is a cautionary tale of the history of human depravity, it is also an amazingly complex narrative, treating timeless ethical themes, medieval philosophy and religion, tendentious political issues and deeply personal events."--San Diego Union-Tribune
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- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: ISBN 0520027124 (0-520-02712-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: ISBN 0520045165 (0-520-04516-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: ISBN 0520045173 (0-520-04517-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr - The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: ISBN 0195004124 (0-19-500412-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: ISBN 0520027124 (0-520-02712-4)
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Infernoby Robert M. Durling, Alighieri Dante, Robert TurnerISBN 0195087445 (0-19-508744-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno'Book summary:This first volume of Robert Durling's new translation of The Divine Comedy brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and humor. Remarkably true to both the letter and spirit of this central work of Western literature, Durling's is a prose translation (the first to appear in twenty-five years), and is thus free of the exigencies of meter and rhyme that hamper recent verse translations. As Durling notes, "the closely literal style is a conscious effort to convey in part the nature of Dante's Italian, notoriously craggy and difficult even for Italians." Rigorously accurate as to meaning, it is both clear and supple, while preserving to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Dante's complex syntax. The Durling-Martinez Inferno is also user-friendly. The Italian text, newly edited, is printed on each verso page; the English mirrors it in such a way that readers can easily find themselves in relation to the original terza rima . Designed with the first-time reader of Dante in mind, the volume includes comprehensive notes and textual commentary by Martinez and Durling: both are life-long students of Dante and other medieval writers (their Purgatorio and Paradiso will appear next year). Their introduction is a small masterpiece of its kind in presenting lucidly and concisely the historical and conceptual background of the poem. Sixteen short essays are provided that offer new inquiry into such topics as the autobiographical nature of the poem, Dante's views on homosexuality, and the recurrent, problematic body analogy (Hell has a structure parallel to that of the human body). The extensive notes, containing much new material, explain the historical, literary, and doctrinal references, present what is known about the damned souls Dante meets --from the lovers who spend eternity in the whirlwind of their passion, to Count Ugolino, who perpetually gnaws at his enemy's skull--disentangle [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087453 (0-19-508745-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno , is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax. Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno . Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno , there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes. Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorioby Robert M. Durling, Robert Turner, Ronald L. MartinezISBN 0195087410 (0-19-508741-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio'Book summary:The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new edition of the Italian text takes recent critical editions into account, and Durling's prose translation, like that of the Inferno, is unprecedented in its accuracy, eloquence, and closeness to Dante's syntax.
Martinez' and Durling's notes are designed for the first-time reader of the poem but include a wealth of new material unavailable elsewhere. The extensive notes on each canto include innovative sections sketching the close relation to passages--often similarly numbered cantos--in the Inferno. Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. As in the Inferno, there is an extensive bibliography and four useful indexes.
Robert Turner's illustrations include maps, diagrams of Purgatory and the cosmos, and line drawings of objects and places mentioned in the poem. [via]More editions of The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Purgatorio:
The Divine Comedy: Paradiso/Text and Commentary, Part 1 and 2by Charles SingletonISBN 0691019142 (0-691-01914-2)
Softcover, Bollingen Foundation
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The Divine Comedy: Paradiso/Text, Part 1by Charles S. SingletonISBN 0691019126 (0-691-01912-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy: Paradiso/Text, Part 1'Book summary:Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Paradiso. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as Dante's vocabulary, his characters, and the historical sources of incidents in the poem. Professor Singleton provides a clear and profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have previously confused readers of The Divine Comedy.
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Hellby Steve Ellis, Dante AlighieriISBN 0099476711 (0-09-947671-1)
Hardcover, Vintage
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The Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary, Claire HonessISBN 1853267872 (1-85326-787-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:[via]The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.The Inferno remains literatures most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simpleand now legendarytercet:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Infernoone of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval worldthe silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.
This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dantes literary genius to a broad American audience. Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellows Dante, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan. Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dantes Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.
Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré.Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature.More editions of The Inferno:
- Inferno: ISBN 1593083319 (1-59308-331-9)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Inferno: ISBN 0385496982 (0-385-49698-2)
Softcover, Anchor Books - Inferno: ISBN 0393323870 (0-393-32387-0)
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The Infernoby Alighieri Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812970063 (0-8129-7006-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An informative introduction and commentary accompany this classic translation of Dante's epic poem about a spiritual pilgrim being led by Virgil through the nine circles of hell, available in a dual-language edition. [via]
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The Infernoby Gustave Dore, Anthony M. Esolen, Alighieri DanteISBN 034548357X (0-345-48357-X)
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Infernoby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Matthew Pearl, Lino PertileISBN 0812967216 (0-8129-6721-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inferno'Book summary:In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of Inferno and thus introduced Dantes literary genius to the New World. In the Inferno, the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the initial stage of his journey toward Heaven. Along the way Dante encounters and describes in vivid detail the various types of sinners in the throes of their eternal torment. [via]
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The Infernoby Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gustave Dore, Alighieri DanteISBN 1593080514 (1-59308-051-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:The Inferno remains literatures most hallowed and graphic vision of Hell. Dante plunges readers into this unforgettable world with a deceptively simpleand now legendarytercet:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
With these words, Dante plunges readers into the unforgettable world of the Infernoone of the most graphic visions of Hell ever created. In this first part of the epic The Divine Comedy, Dante is led by the poet Virgil down into the nine circles of Hell, where he travels through nightmare landscapes of fetid cesspools, viper pits, frozen lakes, and boiling rivers of blood and witnesses sinners being beaten, burned, eaten, defecated upon, and torn to pieces by demons. Along the way he meets the most fascinating characters known to the classical and medieval worldthe silver-tongued Ulysses, lustful Francesca da Rimini, the heretical Farinata degli Uberti, and scores of other intriguing and notorious figures.
This edition of the Inferno revives the famous Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which first introduced Dantes literary genius to a broad American audience. Opening the book we stand face to face with the poet, wrote William Dean Howells of Longfellows Dante, and when his voice ceases we may marvel if he has not sung to us in his own Tuscan. Lyrically graceful and brimming with startlingly vivid images, Dantes Inferno is a perpetually engrossing classic that ranks with the greatest works of Homer and Shakespeare.
Features a map of Hell and illustrations by Gustave Doré.[via]Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and a past president of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature and Italian cinema, and a dictionary of Italian literature.
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translationby Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky, Nicole PinskyISBN 0374524521 (0-374-52452-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:The one quality that all classic works of literature share is their timelessness. Shakespeare still plays in Peoria 400 years after his death because the stories he dramatized resonate in modern readers' hearts and minds; methods of warfare have changed quite a bit since the Trojan War described by Homer in his Iliad, but the passions and conflicts that shaped such warriors as Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus still find their counterparts today on battlefields from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Likewise, a little travel guide to hell written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri in the 13th century remains in print at the end of the 20th century, and it continues to speak to new generations of readers. There have been countless translations of the Inferno, but this one by poet Robert Pinsky is both eloquent and tailored to our times.
Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. [via]
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The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translationby Robert Pinsky, Nicole Pinsky, Alighieri Dante, Michael MazurISBN 0374525315 (0-374-52531-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation'Book summary:The one quality that all classic works of literature share is their timelessness. Shakespeare still plays in Peoria 400 years after his death because the stories he dramatized resonate in modern readers' hearts and minds; methods of warfare have changed quite a bit since the Trojan War described by Homer in his Iliad, but the passions and conflicts that shaped such warriors as Achilles, Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Odysseus still find their counterparts today on battlefields from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Likewise, a little travel guide to hell written by the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri in the 13th century remains in print at the end of the 20th century, and it continues to speak to new generations of readers. There have been countless translations of the Inferno, but this one by poet Robert Pinsky is both eloquent and tailored to our times.
Yes, this is an epic poem, but don't let that put you off. An excellent introduction provides context for the work, while detailed notes on each canto are a virtual who's who of 13th-century Italian politics, culture, and literature. Best of all, Pinsky's brilliant translation communicates the horror, despair, and terror of hell with such immediacy, you can almost smell the sulfur and feel the heat from the rain of fire as Dante--led by his faithful guide Virgil--descends lower and lower into the pit. Dante's journey through Satan's kingdom must rate as one of the great fictional travel tales of all time, and Pinsky does it great justice. [via]
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieriby Ciaran CarsonISBN 1862075255 (1-86207-525-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:"Inferno", the first volume of Dante Alighieri's "La Divina Comemedia", is an imaginitive tour de force. Dante's hero, Virgil, guides him through hell, showing him the inhabitants of each of its nine circles and examples of the divine justice meted out to them. Ciaran Carson's translation of the text is suffused with wit, anger and irreverent vigour and attempts not to diminish the pathos of the original. [via]
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The Inferno Of Dante Alighieriby Dante Alighieri, Ciaran CarsonISBN 1590171144 (1-59017-114-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno Of Dante Alighieri'Book summary:This startling new translation of Dante's Inferno is by Ciaran Carson, one of contemporary Ireland's most dazzlingly gifted poets. Written in a vigorous and inventive contemporary idiom, while also reproducing the intricate rhyme-scheme that is so essential to the beauty and power of Dante's epic, Carson's virtuosic rendering of the Inferno is that rare thinga translation with the heft and force of a true English poem. Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid, Ciaran Carson's Inferno is an extraordinary modern response to one of the great works of world literature. [via]
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Paradiseby Dante, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812977262 (0-8129-7726-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paradise'Book summary:The Divine Comedy is a complete scale of the depths and heights of human emotion," wrote T.S. Eliot. "The last canto of the Paradiso is to my thinking the highest point that poetry has ever reached or ever can reach."
The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.
"A spectacular achievement," said poet and critic Archibald MacLeish of John Ciardi's version of Dante's masterpiece. "A text with the clarity and sobriety of a first-rate prose translation which at the same time suggests in powerful and unmistakable ways the run and rhythm of the great original." [via] -
Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human strivingthe merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensityan immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, the Love that moves the Sun and other stars. [via]
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Paradisoby Alighieri DanteISBN 0916349381 (0-916349-38-1)
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The Paradisoby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451528050 (0-451-52805-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares the ultimate goal of human strivingthe merging of individual destiny with universal order. One of the towering creations of world literature, this epic discovery of sublime truth is a work of almost mystical intensityan immortal hymn to God, Nature, Eternity, and, above all, the Love that moves the Sun and other stars. [via]
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The Paradisoby Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 1593083173 (1-59308-317-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:[via]The Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Dantes Paradiso, often thrown into shadow by the first two parts of The Divine Comedy, features one of the most sublime, luminous, and exciting visions in all of literaturethat of Heaven itself.
Having climbed the mountain of Purgatory, Dante begins to ascend to the heights of the universe with his beloved Beatrice as guide. They soar through the nine spheres of heaventhe moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the stars, and the Prime Mover. Along the way Dante meets people he knew on Earth, who now appear as dazzling jewels, and many others whom he had always wanted to meet, such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Saint Bonaventure, and his great-great-grandfather. Finally, Dante reaches Heaven, where incredibly beautiful scenesbrilliant lights and colors, and flowering gardens unfold before his eyes, always accompanied by celestial music. Heaven, he learns, is not a place of boring rest, but one of joyful activity, dancing and singing, and endless movement and surprises.
A poem of true heroic fulfillment, Paradiso stands as literatures greatest hymn to the glory of God.
Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University. Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. Both have translated works from Italian and have published extensively on Italian culture and art.More editions of The Paradiso:
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The Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 1593083718 (1-59308-371-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Following The Inferno (also available from Signet Classic) and preceding The Paradiso (available next month from Signet Classic) this brilliant translation of Dante's immortal three-part Divine Comedy beautifully captures the conception of the aspiring soul.
Ciardi's version of Dante will be in many respects the best we have seen. (John Crowe Ransom) [via]More editions of The Purgatorio:
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Softcover, Princeton University Press - Purgatorio : A New Verse Translation: ISBN 0375409211 (0-375-40921-1)
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Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Purgatorio: ISBN 0679602100 (0-679-60210-0)
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The Purgatorioby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 1593082193 (1-59308-219-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:[via]Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Perhaps the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieris all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. Joyfully anticipating heaven, Purgatorio continues the poets journey from the darkness of Hell to the divine light of Paradise.
Beginning with Dantes liberation from the Inferno, part two of The Divine Comedy follows the poet as he and the Roman poet Virgil struggle up the steep terraces of the earthly island-mountain called Purgatory, miraculously created as a result of Lucifers storied fall. As he travels through the first seven levelseach representing one of the seven deadly sinsDante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise. Each echelon teaches a new lesson about human healing and growth, on earth as well as in the spiritual world. As he journeys upward, level by level, Dante gradually changes into a wiser, braver, and better man. Only when he has learned from each of these stations will he finally be allowed to ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden.
Perhaps Dantes most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatorio is an enthralling allegory of sin, redemption, and ultimate enlightenment.Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. She has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council and as Assistant Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include a book on Petrarch, The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, and translations of Italian classics by Benvenuto Cellini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giorgio Vasari.
Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and has been President of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature, and studies of Italian cinema. His latest book is Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, a history of how Italian Americans have been depicted in Hollywood.More editions of The Purgatorio:
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Purgatorioby Robert HollanderISBN 0385497008 (0-385-49700-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Now I shall sing the second kingdom, there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to heaven. In the second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy , Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature. Now Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander's own decades of teaching and reasearch. [via]
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Purgatoryby Anthony M. Esolen, Dante, Gustave DoreISBN 0679642684 (0-679-64268-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatory'Book summary:A brilliant new translation of the centerpiece of The Divine Comedy
Purgatory, the mountain that straightens souls made crooked by the world, is Dantes single most conceptually brilliant creation. Anthony Esolens vivid and innovative new rendering unearths Dantes own voice with unprecedented vigor, accuracy, and a masterly use of English meter. It will set the standard for years to come.
Esolens Introduction incisively explores Dantes theological universe: the nature of Purgatory, how Dante came to invent it, and how Purgatory is finally about restoration, liberation, and friendship. Special features, from an appendix that reproduces key sources to extensive explanatory notes, make this a particularly illuminating edition for both expert and newcomer. [via]More editions of Purgatory:
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Purgatoryby Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Anthony M. EsolenISBN 0812971256 (0-8129-7125-6)
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Written in the fourteenth century by Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy is arguably the greatest epic poem of all timepresenting Dantes brilliant vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. In this second and perhaps most imaginative part of his masterwork, Dante struggles up the terraces of Mount Purgatory, still guided by Virgil, in a continuation of his difficult ascent to purity. Anthony Esolens acclaimed translation of Inferno, Princeton professor James Richardson said, follows Dante through all his spectacular range, commanding where he is commanding, wrestling, as he does, with the density and darkness in language and in the soul. It is living writing. This edition of Purgatory includes an appendix of key sources and extensive endnotesan invaluable guide for both general readers and students.More editions of Purgatory:
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La Divine Comedie, L'enferby Jacqueline Risset, Dante AlighieriISBN 2080712160 (2-08-071216-0)
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La Divine Comedie, Le Purgatoireby Jacqueline Risset, Dante AlighieriISBN 2080712179 (2-08-071217-9)
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LA Divina Commedia: Infernoby Alighieri DanteISBN 8817152323 (88-17-15232-3)
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